On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:12:47 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 6/16/2012 14:51, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I was wondering how the new Deus Ex was - saw it's out on the PS3, and
>> now that I've played through MW3, I'm looking for something else once
>> we have some spare cash again.
> 
> It's fun. Very replayable. I went the whole game the first time thinking
> that augments were very limited because I didn't know some of your
> energy slowly grows back, so I used mostly weapons.

Cool, replay value is a positive thing.

> It has the same problem as 90% of the sneaky games out there, in that
> the difficulty level doesn't really go up. It's way, way easier to be
> sneaky than to fight through it.

Interesting.  I think I'd enjoy that, I find in MW2 and MW3 I prefer the 
stealth missions.

> I good, solid, enjoyable game with lots of different ways to play it.
> But maybe my standards are too high, because it seems pretty average,
> with average level design, average visuals, average gameplay, etc.
> Bioshock was much prettier, Batman was much cooler, etc.
> 
> Having been through it and seen what all the weapons are, the upgrades,
> how the augs get used, it's somewhat easier the second time. I can say
> "No, I don't need to horde that ammo, as I will never use that gun
> anyway." Stuff like that.

Fantastic, thanks for the review, definitely on my list.

Jim

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